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GUIDE THROUGH MOUNT AUBURN, 

(ON PAGE 10 AND 11,) 

WITH SIXTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS OF THE MONUMENTS> 
FOR THE 

BENEFIT OF STRANGERS 

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WITH AN 

ENGRAVED PLAN OF THE CEMETERY. 



BY NATHANIEL DEARBORN, 

Author of the American Text Book for Letters, Boston Notions, 

Reminiscences of Boston and Guide through the city, 

Quotations of Humor, Wit and AVisdom, &.c. 



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HGUti i AUBURN CHAF£L, 

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ODE ON 
MOUNT AUBURN CHAPEL AND CEMETERY, 

By Nathaniel Dearborn. 
This mystic Fane in Auburn's sculptured grounds, 
d suppliant sounds, 
In aid of our infirmity : 
The chastened heart to save, the mourner ch ei 
The message-promise from Jehovah hear 

in eternity ; 
And here the bosomed relie of a friend, 
Returns to what it w:>-. and is, an end 

To re-produce frail, dying- man ; 
The soul is called to .!• -u- heavenly shrine, 
Beatic essence of the mind divine, 

• ommuning with the great i m. 



THIS LITTLE MANUAL 

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED 

TO 

JACOB BIGELOW, M. D., 

President of the Mount Auburn Cemetery Institution ; 

For his having been the first suggester of an Amer- 
ican Garden Cemetery, and as one of the most eminent 
promoters of that now celebrated establishment; and also, 
for twenty-two years unremitted exertions in advancing it 
to its present state of usefulness and beauty. 

That his life may be long preserved to his fellow 
citizens, and for himself to witness his fondest wishes 
realized, in the perfection of his plans for that cherished 
elysium, is the hope of 

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and very humble servant, 

June, 1851. Nathaniel dearborn. 



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DEARBORN'S GUIDE 

THROUGH 

MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, 

5ih EDITION, WITH SIXTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS OF THE MONUMENTS. 
BY NATHANIEL DEARBORN; 

No. 104 Washington Street, Boston :— 1851. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, 

BY NATHANIEL DEARBORN, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 



MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION. 
Jacob Bigelow, President. George William Bond, Treasurer, Office 55 Kilby St. 
Henry M. Parker, Secretary, Office 40 Washington Street. 

TRUSTEES. 
Jacob Bigelow, 27 Summer Street. I Benjamin A. Gould, 20 Union Wharf. 

Geo. AV. Crockett, 5 Central Wharf. | John C. Gray. 30 Court Street. 
Charles P. Curtis, 16 Court Street. I Isaac Parker, 2 & 4 Pearl Street. 

Benjamin R. Curtis, •' " " | James Read, 29 Milk St. 

John J. Dixwell, 56 State St. | 

COMMITTEE ON LOTS. 
Jacob Bigelow, Ciiables P. Curtis, Isaac Parkeb. 
Rufus Howk, Superxntetident. 



STRANGERS can receive, on application to any Trustee, or to the Secretary, a permit 
to enter the Cemetery with a Carriage, any day, except Sundays and Holydaya. 



MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, CAMBRIDGE. 
4 1-2 miles west from Boston — 1 1-4 miles west of Harvard University. 

This spot of land was formerly called stone's woods : its uncommonly 
gorgeous and beautifully varied scenery; its full grown umbrageous 
trees of many tribes, alluring numbers to its silent and peaceful shades, 
its name was changed by common consent to that of "sweet auburn;" 
Under this appropriate appellation, it became more eminently a 
favorite grove for the lovers of nature, to enjoy the pleasing and healthy 
color and balmy atmosphere of green trees, shrubbery, grassy hills, 
solitary grottos, yet enlivened with music from the feathered songsters 
throughout this best elysium of nature's work. 

The original lot comprised an area of 72 acres ; but by an after purchase 
of 38}<£ acres, it now measures 110}^ in all : the whole obtained at a 
cost of $9,766.89 : The Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetry contem- 
plate adding about 100 acres of adjoining land to the present grounds 
of that cemetery, during the present season. The u horticultural so- 
ciety of Massachusetts " were nobly impressed with the importance 
of an extensive rural cemetery for the burial of the dead, and after the 
above named purchases by them, they transferred the whole grounds to 
a society of gentlemen,who had labored for the accomplishment of this 
object, ever since the year 1825, for the sum of $4,222,42 ; thus making 
a generous gift of $5,544,47. 



This latter society was Incorporated, as "the proprietors of mount 
AViiuuN cemetery," June 23, 1831, and the ground consecrated on the 
24th of Sept., in that year : the first meeting for agitating this subject, 
was held in 1825, at the house of Dr. Jacob Bigelow, the present Pres- 
ident of the society; with the aid of the late George Bond, Wra. Sturgis, 
the late Hon. John Lowell, the late Samuel P. Gardiner, Thomas W. 
Ward, Nathan Hale, and John Tappan ; who realized their fondest hopes 
in founding the first, by date ; the most enobling, and most beautitul 
garden cemetery in this extensive country ; to become in time a paradise 
of sculptuary; of monuments and mausoleums, interspersed amid nature's 
lovliest productions; the capaciousness of the ground will permit 20,000 
lots of 300 superficial square feet, each of which is offered at 100 dollars 
if purchased from any of those surveyed and located for the sale list ; but 
if a lot be preferred in any part of the grounds not thus prepared, an 
additional sum will be required, say 10 dollars or more; around these lots 
the Avenues for carriages, 2o feet wide, and Paths for pedestrians, 6 feet 
wide, are laid out circuitously, to an extent, if measured in one straight 
line, would span a distance of 30 miles : about 1800 Lots have been 
disposed of, and about 350 Monuments, Shafts, Cenotaphs, Obelisks, 
and Slabs, have been raised to hallow and adorn the spot. All monies 
received from the sale of Lots or from any other source, is expended in 
ornamenting and improving this Garden Cemetery. During the two first 
years of its consecration, upwards of 30,000 dollars were expended in 
grading the roads, building a house, &c. for the Superintendent, fencing, 
&c. The front entrance Gate from Cambridge road, is a design from an 
Egyptian model, and is masterly chiseled in Granite, at a cost of about 
8 10.000 ; and the cast iron picketed fence on that whole front line was 
erected at a cost of about §15,000 : — a splendid Chapel was completed 
within its grounds in 1848, at a cost of about $25,000. The highest 
mound in the Cemetery is called Mt. Auburn, and is 125 feet above 
Charles River, which meanders by the grounds on its southern border : 
° it is proposed to erect on this summit a Tower ; after some classic 
model, of sufficient height to be seen above the surrounding trees, to 
subserve the triple purpose of a landmark, — to identify the spot, and for 
an Observatory, commanding an uninterrupted view of the surrounding 
landscape " of cities, towns, hills, farms, rivers, Massachusetts Bay, 
with its many Islands and shipping; the lantern or cupola of this Tower, 
to be at least 185 feet above the river Charles. 

Mr. RUFUS HOWE. 

The Superintendent of Mount Auburn, resides within its borders; and 
conducts the affairs of the internal management of the Cemetery, in a 
very eminently judicious manner : any one applying to him for informa- 
tion concerning the lots on sale, for burials, or any other item appertain- 



ing to those grounds, will receive every polite attention ; a direct appli- 
cation to him is therefore most advisable, to save trouble and time. 

By a reference to the Map of Mt. Auburn, which is on the last page 
of this pamphlet, the Avenues and Paths exhibit an universal curvature; 
their lines are " not straight, but crooked ;" and if one is not familiar 
with their windings, a visit there may be attended with much fatigue 
and exhaustion ; and that too, without the compensating gratification of 
seeing the beautiful and grand mementos of the living to the dead : to 
aid the visitor to thread this mazy labyrinlh, with a tolerable understand- 
ing, attended too with a satisfactory result, a direct guide through 
mount auburn, pausing at the various clusters of Monuments and Shafts, 
by the most convenient route, is to be found on page 10 ; the sixty-four 
engraved representations of them, are placed in the same progressive 
rotation; so, that, as one advances in the circuit laid down, by the printed 
guide, the monuments, engraved, will be met with in their designated 
accompanying position : — thus ; the Sarcophagus of the late Dr. Spurz- 
heim is the first one approached, and that is the first engraving and the 
first one named in the printed Guide : the monument of Story, being 
nearly the last one on passing through the Cemetery, by the printed 
Guide, the engraving of it is placed last in this work. 

The order ol the consecration of Mount Auburn, was an address from 
the late Hon. Judge Story, who was then President of the Institution ; 
prayers from Dr. Ware and Rev. John Pierpont, with the following 
impressive hymn from the pen of the latter. 



To thee, O God, in humble trust, 

Our hearts their cheerful incense bum, 

For this thy word, "Thou art of dust," 
And unto dust shalt thou return. 

And what were life, life's work all done, 
The hopes, joys, loves, that cling to clay, 

All, all, departed, one by one, 
And yet life's load borne on for aye ! 



Decay! decay! 'tis stamped on all, 

All bloom in flower and flesh shall fade, 

Ye whispering trees when ye shall fall. 
He our long sleep beneath your shade ! 

Here to thy bosom mother earth, 

Take back in peace what thou hast given 
And all that is of heavenly birth, 
O God, in peace, recall to heaven. 



HYMN. 



Home of the coming dead ! 
The spot whereon we tread 

Is hallowed ground : 
Here earth, in sacred trust, 
Shall hold their sleeping dust, 
Until her bonds they burst, 

And rise unbound. 

Here shall the weary rest. 
And souls, witli woes oppress'd, 

No more shall weep : 
And youth and age shall come, 
And beauty in her bloom, 
And Manhood, to the tomb ; 

Sweet be their sleep ! 



Around their lowly bed 

Shall flowers their fragrance shed, 

And birds shall sing : 
On every verdant mound 
Love's offering shall be found, 
And sighing trees around 

Their shadows fling. 

And there's a holier light ' 
Hope, with her taper bright, 

On every tomb. 
Points upward to the sky ; 
There every tear is dry; 
There is no mourner's sigh, 

Nor death, uur gloom. 



REGULATIONS CONCERNING VISITORS TO THE CEMETERY 
AT MOUNT AUBURN. 



Tho gates are opened at sunrise and closed at sunset. 

No money is to be paid to the gate keeper. 

No persons are admitted on Sundays or Holydays, except Proprietors and members 
of their household, and persons accompanying them. 

No refreshments, and no parly carrying refreshments, will be admitted to come within the 
grounds at Mount Auburn. 

All persons who shall be found within the grounds making unseemly noises, or otherwise 
Conducting themselves unsuitably to the purposes to which the grounds are devoted, will be 
required instantly to leave the grounds, and upon refusal, will be compelled to do so, and 
will be prosecuted accordingly. 

No vehicle is to be driven in the Cemetery at a rate faster than a icalJc. 

No horse is to be left unfastened, without a keeper. 

No horse is to be fastened, except at the posts provided for this purpose. 

All persons are prohibited from gathering any flowers, either wild or cultivated, or 
breaking any tree, shrub, or plant. 

Any person who shall be found in possession of flowers or shrubs, while in the grounds 
or before leaving them, will be deemed to have tortiously taken them in the grounds, and 
will be prosecuted accordingly. N. B. Persons carrying flowers into the Cemetery, to be 
placed on any lot or grave, as offerings or memorials, are requested to notify the Gatekeeper • 
us they pass in ; in every other ease, flowers brought to the Cemetery must be left without 
the gate. 

All persons are prohibited from writing upon, defacing and injuring any monument, fence 
or other structure, in or belonging to the Cemetery. 

All persons are prohibited from discharging firearms in the Cemetery. 

The Superintendent of the grounds, the Gatekeeper, and any other person acting under 
them, shall have a right to require his or her name from any person other than a proprietor, 
or a member of his family, who shall visit the grounds, and upon his or her refusal, or giving 
a false name, to exclude them from the grounds. 

The Superintendent, the Gatekeeper, and all other persons acting under them, shall have 
full authority to carry these regulations into effect, and shall give notice of any violations 
thereof, to the Trustees. 

0=-The Superintendent has the care of the Cemetery, and is authorized to remove all 
those who violate these regulations or commit tresspasses. Tresspassers are also liable to 
be fined Fifty Dollars. 

IIT'Twemy Dollars reward is offered to any person who shall give information to 
the Trustees, which shall lead to the conviction of the offender, of any tresspass done by 
taking or plucking any flowers, shrubs, or trees, within the grounds, or of otherwise injuring 
the grounds, or of any other offence against the laws and regulations, provided for the pro- 
tection of the Cemetery, and the monuments and erections therein. 

The Secretary will issue to the proprietors each one Ticket of Admission into the 
Cemetery with a vehicle ; the loan of t lie Ticket involves a forfeiture of this privilege. In 
case of a loss of the Ticket, the Proprietor is requested to apply to the Secretary, from 
whom a new one can be obtained. This is necessary, as the Gatekeeper's orders are to 
admit no proprietor without a ticket. 

Any person who has a relative interred in the Public Lot at the Cemetery, may, on 
application to any Trustee or to the Secretary, receive a special pass into the Cemetery 
on ifum/ays. 

Repairs of Monuments and Lots. Any owner of a Lot wishing to have it kept in 
perpetual repair, by depositing funds with the Trustees for that purpose, will receive from 
them a Deed of Trust for tlie funds and assume the duties and responsibilities. The interest 
on 300 dollars will perpetually keep in repair a lot of 300 feet, with its monument, shrub- 
bery and soil ; the interest on 500 dollars is required for a similar sized lot if with a Tomb; 
if 100 dollars are deposited, its interest money will be expended for repairs as far as that 
will accomplish the purpose. 



CONDITIONS, LIMITATIONS AND PRIVILEGES TO WHICH EVERY LOT IS 
SUBJECT BY THE DEED OF THE CORPORATION, TO WIT: 

First. The proprietor of the lot shall have a right to enclose the same with a wall or fence 
not exceeding one foot in thickness, which may be placed on the adjoining land of the Cor- 
poration exterior to the said lot. 

Second. The said lot shall not be used for any other purpose than as a place of burial for 
the dead ; and no trees within the lot or border shall be cut down or destroyed, without the 
consent of the Trustees of the said Corporation. 

Third. The proprietor of the said lot shall have the right to erect stones, monuments, or 
sepulchral structures, and to cultivate trees, shrubs and plants in the same. 

Fourth. The proprietor of the said lot shall erect, at his or her own expense, suitable land 
marks of stone or iron, at the corners thereof, and shall also cause the number thereof to be 
legibly and permanently marked on the premises. And if the proprietor shall omit for thirty 
days after notice, to erect such land marks and mark the number, the Trustees shall have 
authority to cause the same to be done at the expense of said proprietor. 

Fifth. If the land marks and boundaries of the said lot shall be effaced, so that the said 
lot cannot with reasonable diligence be found and identified, the said Trustees shall set off 
to the said grantee, his or her heirs or assigns, a lot in lieu thereof, in such part of the cem- 
etery, as they see fit, and the lot hereby granted shall in such case revert to the Corporation. 

Sixth. If any trees or shrubs situated in said lot, shall by means of their roots, branches, 
or otherwise, become detrimental to the adjacent lots or avenues, or dangerous or inconve- 
nient to passengers, it shall be the duty of the said Trustees for the time being, and they 
shall have the right, to enter into the said lot, and remove the said trees and shrubs, or such 
parts thereof as are thus detrimental, dangerous or inconvenient. 

Seventh. If any monument or effigy, or any structure whatever, or any inscription be 
placed in or upon the said lot, which shall be determined by the major part of the said 
Trustees for the time being, to be offensive or improper, the said Trustees, or the major 
part of them, shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to enter upon said lot, and re- 
move the said offensive or improper object or objects. 

Eighth. No fence shall at any time be placed or erected in or around any lot, the mate- 
rials and design of which shall not first have been approved by the trustees or a committee 
of them. - 

Ninth. No tomb shall be constructed within the bounds of the Cemetery except in or upon 
lots situated in such parts of the grounds as shall be designated by the Trustees for that 
purpose ; and no proprietor shall suffer the remains of any person to be deposited in a torn b 
so authorized, for hire. 

Tenth. The said lot shall be holden subject to the provisions contained in an act of the 
General Court, dated March 31, 1S35, and entitled, " An Act to incorporate the Proprietors 
of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn." 

Note. — The society request that all railings or inclosures of lots may be light, neat and 
symmetrical,— that all stones erected in memory of the dead may be marble or granite, — 
and that no slabs be placed in the Cemetery. Fences composed in whole or in part of wood 
are prohibited. 



"There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes 

Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise ; 

AVe may findit where a hedgerow showers its blossoms o'er our way 

Or a cottage-window sparkles forth in the last red light of day. 

Yes ! beauty dwells in all our paths — but sorrow too is there ; 

How oft some cloud within us dims the bright, still summer air ! 

When we carry our sick hearts abroad amidst the joyous things 

That through the leafy places glance, on many colored wings. 

With shadows from the past, we fill the happy woodland shades, 

Ami ;i mournful memory of the dead is with us in the slades ; 

And our dream-like fancies lend the wind an echo's plaintive tone, 

Of voices, and of melodies, and of silvery laughter gone. 

They hold us from the woodlark's haunts, and the violet-dingles back, 

And from the lovely sounds and gleams in the shining river's track ; 

They bar us fiorn our heritage of spring-time hope and mirth, 

Aiid weigh our burdened spirits down with the cumbering dust of earth." 



SITUATION OF THE AVENUES OR CARRIAGE ROADS. 20 FEET WIDE 

Beach, from the east side of Central, southerly, to Poplar Avenue. 
Cetlar, from the north line of Cypress, southerly, to Walnut Avenue. 
Central, fronting the gate, south, to Walnut Avenue. 
Chapel, southwest, from Central to Pine Avenue. 
Chestnut, from Poplar, southerly, to Mountain Avenue. 
Citron, a short avenue, southeasterly, from Oak to Magnolia Avenue. 
Cypress, from Central, westerly, curving southerly, to Walnut Avenue. 
Elm, westerly, from Pine Avenue, curving round easterly, to the same. 
Fir. from the second branch of Elm Ave., southerly, curving easterly to Walnut Av. 
Garden, east from the gate, curving to the south, and then to the east again to Maple Av. 
Larch, southeast from Poplar Avenue, curving northeast, to Maple Avenue. 
Laurel, from Walnut Avenue, northerly, and around Laurel hill. 
Lime, from Maple, curving round at Aloe path, again into Maple Avenue. 
Locust, from Beach Avenue, southwesterly to Poplar Avenue. 
Magnolia, at the southeast of Mountain, to Maple Avenue, curving northerly. 
Maple, from the east end of Garden Avenue, southerly, to Magnolia Avenue. 
Mountain, all round Mt. Auburn Hill, to Magnolia Avenue, easterly. 
Oak, from Willow Avenue, easterly, curving south to Magnolia Avenue. 
Pine, from Elm Avenue, southerly, curving to the southeast, into Cypress Avenue. 
Poplar, from the northeast of Central square, curving southeast to Larch Avenue. 
Spruce, from Elm Av. southerly, curving through thewhole western extent of the Cem. 
Walnut, west of Central Sq. curving S. westerly, and then to the south into Moun. Av. 
Willow, with two branches, the 1st branch from Poplar Av. northeasterly, to Narcissus 
Path, then curving easterly for the 2d branch, to the south, to Larch Avenue. 

SITUATION OF THE FOOT PATHS. 6 FEET WIDE. 

Ailanthus, it has two openings from Central Avenue, and two also from Cedar Avenue. 

connecting with both Avenues. 
Alder, from Poplar Avenue, northwest, round southwest to Locust Avenue. 
Almond, from Indian Ridge Path, southwesterly, curving into it again at the southeast. 
Aloe, " " " " easterly, into Lime Avenue. 

Altrea, from Fir Avenue, southerly, to Spruce Avenue. 
Amaranth, from Rose Path, encircling Harvard Hill. 

Anemone, from Orange Path, near Walnut Avenue, westerly, to Spruce Avenue. 
Arethusa, from Walnut Avenue, westerly, to Trefoil Path. 
Asclepias, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue. 
Astor, from Vine Path, southerly, and curving easterly to Ivy Path. 
Azalea, southerly from Spruce Avenue, and curving easterly to the same Avenue. 
Bellworl, from Orange Path, westerly, to Spruce Avenue. 
Calla, from Fir Avenue, southwest, to Pilgrim Path. 
Catalpa, from Indian Ridge Path, southerly, curving easterly to the same. 
Clematis, from Magnolia Avenue, southeast, curving northerly , to the same avenue. 
Columbine, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue. 
Cowslip, from Walnut Avenue southwesterly, to Sprue; Avenue. 
Crocus, from Fir Avenue, westerly, curving south, to Spruce Avenue. 
Dell, from Ivy Path, southwest, around Consecration Dell, and from thence, through either 

of the two southeastern limbs of Dell Path, to Ivy Path again. 
Elder, from Walnut Avenue, northwest, to Spruce Avenue. 

Eglantine, from Spruce Avenue, southeasterly, winding into Fir Avenue southerly. 
Fern, from Walnut Avenue, southeast, to .Mountain Avenue. 

Gentian, from Pine Avenue, westwardly, curving southeasterly, into Cypress Avenue. 
Geranium, from Beech Avenue, southerly, curving into Central Avenue westerly, 

and Beech Avenue, easterly. 



Green Brier, from Pine Avenue, westerly, to Mistletoe Path. 

Harebell, from Walniu Avenue, southerly, to Trefoil Path, westerly. 

Hawthorn, from Woodbine Path, and encircles Juniper Hill. 

Hazel, from Mountain Avenue, southeasterly, to Rose Path, northerly. 

Heath, from Spruce Avenue, westerly to Fir Avenue. 

Heliotrope, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue. 

Hemlock, from Poplar Avenue, southwesterly, to Ivy Path. 

Hibiscus, from Cypress Avenue, curving into the same Avenue again. 

Honeysuckle, from Green Brier Path, southerly, curving easterly, into Fir Avenue. 

Holly, from Poplar Avenue, south, curving southerly, to Ivy Path. 

Hyacinth, from Chapel Avenue, southerly, to Cypress Avenue. 

Indian Ridge, from Central Avenue, southeasterly, to Larch and Maple Avenues. 

Iris, near Central Square, from Moss to Dell Path, southeasterly. 

Ivy, from Central Square, southerly, curving round northeasterly, into Woodbine Path. 

Jasmine, from Chestnut Avenue, westerly, curving south to Hawthorn Path. 

Lilac, from the northeast curve of Willow Avenue, northerly, to Indian Ridge Path. 

Lily, from Poplar Avenue, southerly, to Woodbine Path, at Cedar Hill. 

Linden, from Beech Avenue, easterly, curving to the south, into Beech Avenue again. 

Lotus, from Magnolia Avenue, southerly, curving northerly, to the same Avenue. 

Lupine, from Cypress Avenue, northwest, to Spruce Avenue. 

Mayflower, from the gate, southeasterly, by the first segment of Garden Pond, to Gar. Av. 

Mimosa, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue. 

Mistletoe, from the westerly curve of Elm Avenue, southeasterly, and curving easterly, 

into Fir Avenue. 
Moss, from Central Square, southwest, curving southwardly to Laurel Avenue. 
Myrtle, southerly, from Chestnut Avenue, curving westerly, to Rose Path. 
Narcissus Path is all around Forest Pond. 

Oleander, from Rose Path, easterly, curving southwesterly, to Myrtle Path. 
Olive, south from Juniper Hill, curving westerly, into Myrtle Path. 
Orange, from Walnut Avenue, southerly, curving to the same Avenue. 
Orchis, westerly, from Walnut Avenue, to Tulip Path. 

Osier, from the northeast curve of Willow Avenue, east, to Indian Ridge Path. 
Petunia, from Larch Avenue, southeasterly, into Oak Avenue. 
Pilgrim, from Walnut Avenue, curving southerly, into Snowdrop Path. 
Primrose, from Central Avenue, southeasterly, around the south side of Garden Pond. 
Pyrola, from Orange Path, westerly, to Spruce Avenue. 
Rhodora, from Oak Avenue, southwesterly, into Larch Avenue. 
Rose, encircles the whole base of Harvard Hill. 

Rosemary, from Jasmine to Hawthorn Path, circling round into, and out of Temple Hill. 
Sedge, easterly from Fir Avenue, curving northerly, to Heath Path. 
Sorrel, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, curving southwest, to Fir Avenue. 
Suowberry, west of the gate, from Pine Avenue, southeasterly, to Central Avenue. 
Snowdrop, westerly from Walnut Avenue, to Pilgrim Path. 
Spirrea, from Fir Avenue, southwesterly, to Mistletoe Path. 

Sumac, southerly, from Moss, near Central Square, to Violet Path and Laurel Av. 
Sweet Brier, from the south of Juniper Hill, southeasterly, to Chestnut Avenue. 
Thistle, southeast from Walnut Avenue, curving westerly, to Spruce Avenue. 
Trefoil, southwesterly, from Walnut Avenue, to Spruce Avenue. 
Tulip, westerly, " " " to Trefoil Path. 

Verbena, southeasterly, from Spruce Avenue, to Fir Avenue. 

Vine, (near Consecration Dell,) from Moss Path, near Central Square, to Iris Path. 
Violet, easterly, from Walnut Avenue, curving northerly, to Ivy Path. 
Woodbine, encircles the whole base of Cedar Hill. 

Yarrow, of two parts, westerly, from Pine Av. to Fir, curving round to Pine Av acain 

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DIRECT GUIDE 

THROUGH MT. AUBURN CEMETERY. 

If approached from Boston side, the front line of the Cemetery 

is from the East point of the compass to the West, and 

Central Avenue, fronting, and from the gate, u from 

the North to the South. 

From the gate, advance in front up Central Ave. and on the left, on an 
elevated plot is the monument to Spurzheim, and a little farther, is the 
metal bronzed statue of Bowditch, in a sitting posture ; then turn to the 
west into Chapel Avenue, and view the beautiful Temple appropriated 
to the sanctuary services of the grave : pass on into Pine Avenue, and 
there are the Shaw and Dorr monuments ; continue Pine Avenue to the 
north-west, which leads to Green Brier and Yarrow Paths, and there are 
the monuments to Haughtou, Fessendeu, Changing, Curtis, Turner, 
Bangs, the sculptured child of Binney, Doane, Gossler, with numerous 
other pillars aud obelisks to meet the eye; after this examination turn 
into Heliotrope and Heath Paths, for Sculpture of Gardner's child, mon- 
ument to Wm. Appleton, and the splendid mausoleum of two fronts to 
Dr. Binney; pass into Fir Avenue at the west, then turn to the south, 
where are the monuments to Torrey, Mrs. N. P. Willis, Bates, Lincoln, 
Pickens, and many others; pass through Fir Avenue to the south, 
crossing SpruceAvenue, curving to itfce south-east, and then turn to the 
right hand into Walnut Avenue, and at the right hand, are Elder, Pil- 
grim and Snowdrop Paths, on a north-west line, and view the sculptured 
infant Frankie, temples of Cotting, Miles, Bush, Foss, Penniman, Shat- 
tuck and others : return to Walnut Avenue and pass through it, curv- 
ing to the south, and view the monuments to Hicks, Worcester, Watson 
and others : then turn to the left into Mountain Avenue, north-westerly, 
and ascend Mt. Auburn's highest mound, 125 feet above the river 
Charles, from whence Boston, and the surrounding country may be seen: 
Then descend ML Auburn on the south-east, through Hazel 
Path, curving round to the north, and pass on to Harvard Hill at the 
north-east; here the eye will greet the mausoleums to Andrews, Kirk- 
land, Ashmun, Hoffman, and officers of Harvard University, and also to 
some of the students : descend into Rose Path, at the south-west, which 
encircles its base, to the eastward : then turn to the right hand into 
Sweet Briar Path, and continue to its south-east termination, and there 
is a mausoleum to Coffin ; then turn to the left hand into Chestnut Ave- 
nue, and at its junction with Hawthorn path, is the Tremont Strangers 
Tomb ; continue north-west through Hawthorn path which leads to 
Cedar Hill,where are the monuments to Hildreth, Appleton and others: 
easterly, is Rosemary Path at the base of Temple Hill, where is the 
monument of Z. B. Adams and others ; from thence southwest, round 



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Cedar Hill, is Ivy Path, wliich curves round lo the north, and at the 
end of this branch of it, a little to the west, is Consecration Dell, where 
are monuments to Stanton, Watts, Waterson, Leverett, Dana, &c. 
leave Consecration Dell at its north-west corner, and pass into Vine 
Path, crossing Moss Path by the monument to Stearns, on to Central 
Square, where are monuments to Hannah Adams, Murray, and others ; 
at the north-west of Central Square is Poplar Avenue curving to the 
east; and there may be seen mementos, to Warren Colburn, Choate, 
Munson, Mrs. Ellis and others : then turn round to the left into the east- 
ern line of Willow Avenue, curving round into its western line, and 
there are obelisks or mausoleums to McLellan, Williams, Bucking- 
ham, Randall, Chamberlain, Thayer, Tuckerman, Mrs. Gannett, Low- 
ell, Mason, Howard and others; leaving Willow Avenue at its south- 
west corner, turn to the right through Poplar Avenue into Alder Path, 
to the north ; and see a monument to Wetmore, Greenleaf, and others ; 
pass into Narcissus Path northerly, around Forest Pond and view the 
monuments to Story, Webster, Oxnard, Rich, Durgin, Faxon, Win- 
chester and others ; at the north curve of Forest Pond is Catalpa 
Path, on an east line to Indian Ridge Path, where those to Brimmer, 
Bond, Seaver, Greenleaf, Patterson, Wadsworth, Francis, and others are 
erected : then return to Catalpa Path west, to Linden Path, near to Beach 
Avenue, where are monuments to Tappan, Thaxter, Raymond and 
others ; pass through Beach Avenue to the south, where are the monu- 
ments of Bigelow, Stone, Stevens, Coolidge, Putnam, &c, then turn 
round to the right hand into Central Avenue, where are the monu- 
ments of Haruden, Gibbs, Phelps, Peck, Burges, Abbe, Clary, and the 
sculptured watch dog of Peikins : turn to the left hand into Cypress Ave- 
nue, where the Bible monument of Gray may be seen on Hibiscus Path, 
and a little south, is the Cogswell monument ; then turn to the left, 
easterly, and near the centre of Central Avenue, the monuments of 
Hewins, Tisdale, Buckminster, Cleveland, Lawrence, Herwig, and oth- 
ers ; continue through Cypress Avenue, curving to the south, and there 
is the Public lot, with numerous shafts and mementos to friends, with 
a singular horrizontal slab to the memory of M, W. B., and a little 
north-west of the Public lot, on Eglantine Path, is the sculptured figure 
of Christ, blessing little children; a little to the East of that is the Ford 
Monument, Faith with the Cross. Return through the south part of 
Cypress Avenue, where is a monument to Samuel Story, Jr., on Lupine 
Path; then turn round to the left, into Cedar Avenue, leading to the 
north, where are monuments to Gridley, Hayward, Benjamin, and oth- 
ers ; continue to the right hand through part of Cypress Avenue, to Cen- 
tral Avenue, passing the statue of Bowditch, and view the monument to 
the officers lost in the exploring expedition and others, after which, a 
return to the gate on the north, may be made direct. 



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GASPER SPURZHEIM, BORN DEC. 31, 1775. LOT 181. 



This eminent and talented lecturer in the cause of science and hu- 
manity, was born on the banks of the Moselle, at Longvich ; was edu- 
cated at the college of Treves, and destined for the church ; but the 
war with Fiance, in 1797, dispersed the students, when Spurzheim 
went to Vienna, a pupil to Dr. Gall, and became his partner : they com- 
menced their lectures on Phrenology, in 1804 : the next year they were 
in Germany, teaching the science to academic Professors : in 1807, and 
till 1813, in Paris : in 1814, Dr. S. visited England and Scotland; he 
tarried there three years ; then returned to Paris, and espoused an ac- 
complished lady : in 1832 he visited this country, landed at New York, 
and died in Boston, Nov. 10, 1832. 

The most expressive tokens of regard and respect, and of mournful 
regret, were shown at his decease, by the government of the University 
at Cambridge, and an Eulogy pronounced by Dr. Follen ; the following 
Ode by Rev. John Pierpont, was written for the occasion. 



Stranger, there is bending n"er thee 

Many an eye with sorrow wet : 
All our stricken hearts deplore thee 

Who, that knew thee, can forget? 
Who forget what thou hast spoken ? 

Who, thine eye, — thy noble frame ? 
But that golden bowl is broken, 

In the greatness of thy fame. 

Autumn's leaves shall fall and wither, 

On the spot where thou shalt rest; 
Tis in love we bear thee thither, 

To thy mourning mother's breast : 
For the stores of science brought us, 

For the charm thy goodness gave ; 
For the lessons thou hast taught us, 

Can we give thee hut a grave ? 



Nature's priest, how pure and fervent 

Was thy worship at her shrine .' 
Friend of man, — of God the servant, 

Advocate of truth divine, — 
Taught and charmed as by no other, 

We have been and hope to be ; 
But while waiting round thee, brother, 

For thy light, — 'lis dark wilh thee '. — 

Dark with thee .' no ; thy Creator, 

All whose creatures and whose laws 
Thou did'st love, — shall give thee greater 

Light than earth's, as earth withdraws. 
To thy God, thy godlike spirit 

Back we give in filial trust; 
Thy cold clay — we grieve to bear it 

To its chamber — but we must. 




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hon. Nathaniel bowditch, l l. D. Died March 16, 1838. 

The Bowditch Statue is placed about midway on Central Avenue, 
at the junction of Central and Chapel Avenues : the figure is of a 
Metalic composition (whose weight is about 2500.) representing that 
supreme Mathematician in a contemplative, studious, sitting attitude ; 
with his volume of " Mecanique Celeste," on which he rests his right 
arm, as if it were fully sufficient for the support of a more important part: 
that of mind, talent, industry and character; and beside him is a tome 
from his mathematical energies, of equally important contents : — that of 
his " American navigator," whereby most of the ships and floating- 
craft on the broad expanse of ocean, which covers 3-5ths of the earth, are 
guided and directed safely to their destined port, if the elements of 
nature permit : — and next to that, is the Globe over which he traversed 
as a navigator many years; and which furnished his gigantic mind with 
the only basis for his immortal productions, and caused him to out-reach 
every one of his age in the abstruse yet sublime study of mathematics ; 
to become President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 
to be invested with the collegiate degree of Doctor of Laws ; — and yet, 
he set out in life with a common school education, and was brought up 
as a sailor boy from the port of Salem, Mass. ; he removed to Boston in 
1823, and died at the age of 65 years. 

" I've lost a day ! " The Prince who nobly cried, 
Had been an Emperor without his crown. 
So should all speak ; so reason speaks to all ; 
Time, the supreme. I Time is Eternity ; 
Pregnant with all eternity can give ! 
Who murders lime, but crushes in the bud 
A power etherial, only not adored." 







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ROBERT G. SHAW. LOT 85. PINE AVJENVE. 

" Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer : 
Next day the fatal precedent will plead : 
Thus Oil, till wisdom is push'd out of lif?. 
Procrastination is the thief of lime ; 
Year after year it steals, '.ill all are fled, 
And to the meroies of a moment leaves 
The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 
If not so frequent, would not this be strange? 
That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still." 







RICHARD HAVGHTON. I.&T 777. PINE AVENUE. 

'■Ah ' how unjust lo Nature and himself 
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! 
Like children babbling nonsense in their sports, 
We censure Nature for a span too short; 
Thai spaii too short, we tax as tedious too; 
Torture invention, all expedients lire, 
To lash the lingering moments into speed, 
And whirl us (happy riddance) from ourselves '■' 




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RET. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, D.D. GREEN DRIER PATH. 

" The sage, peer, potentate, king-, conqueror! 

Death humbles these ; more barbarous Life the man ! 

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay : 

Death is the spirit infinite! divine ! 

Death has no dread but what frail Life imparts, 

Nor Life true joy but what kind, death improves. 

No bliss has life to boast, till Death can give 

Far greater. Life's a debtor to the grave : 

Dark lattice ! letting in eternal day." 







ELISHA TURNER. LOT 714. YARROW PATH, 

"O ye, whose hours in jocund trainaidvaijce,[0, ye, while Fate delays th' impending woe, 
Whose spirits to the song of gladness dance, Be roused to thought, — anticipate the blow ; 
Whose flowery plains in endless pomp survey,' Lest like the lightning's glance, the sudden ill 
Glittering in beams of visionary day ; [Flash to confound, and penetrate to kill." 




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LOT 681. DEXTER'S SCULPTURE OF EMILY, ON YARROW PATH. 
"Beware what earth calls happiness; beware 
Al joys bui joys ihat never can expire. 
Who builds on less than an immortal bue, 
Fondas lie seems, condemns Ins joys to oeath." 







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JOHN H. GOSSLER. LOT 1129, YARROW PATH. 

'Alas ! how vain 
The wreath thai Fame would hind around our tomb — 
The winds shall waste it, and the worms destroy j 
The fickle praise of for posterity, 
Come, weigh il ai the grave's brink, here with mo, 
It" thou cans't weigh a dream." 




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s. Gardner's lot. mon. of a little girl, by dexter. 

Death found strange beauty on that polished brow, 
And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose 
On cheek and lip. He touched the veins with ice 
And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes 
There spake a wishful tenderness, a doubt 
Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence 
Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound 
The silken fringes of those curtained lids 
Forever. But there beamed a smile, 
So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, 
Death gazed, and left it there. He durst not steal 
The signet-ring of Heaven. 

Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. 




WM. APPLETON. LOT 920. HELIOTROPE PATH. 

"If time past 
And time possess'd both pain us, what can please? 
That which the Deity to please ordain'd, 
Time used. The man who consecrates his hours 
By vigorous effort and an honest aim, 
At once he draws the sting of life and death ; 
He walks with Nature, and her paths are peace." 




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AMOS UlNNEY. M. D. HEATH PATH, LOT 1390. 

Died at Rome, Feb. 18, 1847, aged 4 1 years, and two smaller, but 
beautiful monuments, inscribed to katjikk — mother, the latter with a 
rich boquet wreath on its top. 




REV. CHAIU.ES T. TORkEV. JUKCT10N OF FIR AND PPRUCE AV. 

Copied from the monument. 
Born at Scituate, Nov. 21, 1813; graduated at Yale College, August 
1833; ordained at Providence, March, 1837: arrested at Baltimore, 
June 24, 1844; died in the Penitentiary of that city, May 9, 1846. 

Charles Turner T.>rrey was arrested for aiding- slaves to regain their liberty. For this 
humane act he was indicted as a criminal, convicted by tlie Baltimore city court, and 
sentenced to the Penitentiary for six years While on his death bed, he was refused a 
pardon by the Governor of .Maryland anil died of consumption, after two years confinement, 
a victim of Ins sufferings. 

There shall his praise be spoken, 

] : pilii- t from falsehood's ban, 

When the fetters shall be broken, 



"Where now beneath his burthen, 
The toiling slave is driven. 
Where now a tyrant's mockery 

It offered up to heaven, 



And the slave shall be a man. 




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LITTLE FRANKIE ; B. 0. WELLINGTON'S LOT 971. ELDER 1>ATII. 

One Utile biul adorned my bower, Yel not forever in the dusl 

And shed sweet fragrance round: That beauteous bud shall lie; 

It grew in beauty, hour by hour. No .'—in the garden of the just, 

Till, ah ! the spoiler came in power, Beneath God's glorious eye, I trust, 
And crushed it to the ground. 'Twill bloom again on high. c. s 




JACOB FOES. LOT 719. SNOWDROP PATH. 
ON ITS FRONT, 

Make us eternal truth's receive, 
And practice all that we believe. 

For modes of Faith, let graceless zealots fight, 
His can't be wrong, whose life is m the right. 

ON THE EASTERN SIDE, 

God is Love. 

Sacred to the memory of Mehitable H., wife of Jacob Foss 

who departed this life April 10. 1816, aged 54 years. 

Go, live ! for Heaven's eternal year is thine, 
Go, and exalt thy mortal, to divine. 




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ZACHARIYH HICKS. LOT 168, WALNUT AVEM'K. 

"I <;»v all aged man upon his I ier: 

His hair was Ihill anil white, and on his brow 

A record pfthe caret of many a year; — 

('airs thai were ended and forgotten now : 
And there was sadness round, and faces bow ed, 
And women's tears fell last, and children wailed aloud.' 




HENRY ANDREWS. LOT 939. AMARANTH PATH. 
" Not lost, but gone before.'" 
<: For scarce upon our infant eyes, 

The sprinkled dew of baptism dries, 
E'er the thick frost of manhood's care. 
And deatlfs strong icy seal is there." 




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JOHN THORNTON KIRKLAND, LL. D. HARVARD HILL. 

John Thornton Kirkland was President of Harvard University, from 
1810, to 1828; which was a prosperous era for that institution: it was 
crowded with students, but his generosity kept him pennyless during the 
whole term : he loved his mother; in his memorandum hook, he wrote, 
"one misfortune befel me in my junior year, which this world can never 
' repair; my mother, on 23d Jan. 1788, died: the highest pleasure I 
1 could ever enjoy was that of pleasing her." he died April 26, 1840 3 M G9 . 







JOHN HOOKER ASHMUN. HARVARD HILL, COLLEGE LOT. 

Deceased April 1st, 1833, aged 33 years. 

'•Instructive emblem of this mortal state ! 
Where scenes as various every hour arise 
In swift succession, which the hand of Fate 
Presents, then whirls them from our wandering eyes. 

Be taught, vain man, how fleeting all thy joys, 
Thy boasted grandeur and thy glittering store : 
Death comes and all thy fancied bliss destroys, 
Quick as a dream it fades and is no more. 

Through earth's thronged visions while we toss forlorn, 
'Tis tumult all, and rage, and restless strife, 
Rut these shall vanish like t lie dreams of morn 
When death awakes us to immortal life." 




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MONUMENT TO HOFFMAN. COLLEGE LOT. 

'•In memory of :i beloved and only son. Frederick William, son of 
David and Mary Hoffman, of Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanied by 
his parents for Iialy, he died at Lyons, Fiance, on me 30lh of November, 
1833, aged 17 years." 

" How mortals dream of things impossible] 

Of joys perpetual, in perpetual change ! 

Where now my frenzy's pompous furniture? 

The cobweb'd cottage, and its ragged wall 

( m mouldering mud, is royalty to me ; 

The spider's most attenuated thread 

I- cord, is cable to man's tender tie 

On earthly bliss : it breaks at every breeze." 




GEORGE W. COFFIN. LOT 35, CHESTNUT AVENUE. 

'• Wisdom though richer than Peruvian mines, 

And sweeter than the sweel ambrosial hive, 
\\hai is she but the means of happiness? 
Thai unobtain'd. than Folly more a fool; 
A melancholy tool, without her bells. 
Friendship, the means of wisdom, richly gives 
The precious end, which makes our wisdom wise." 



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TREMONT OR STRANGERS' TOMB. LOT 324, CHESTNUT AVENUE. 

Owned by the Proprietors of the Tremont House, Boston ; built in 
1833, of a pentagonal form, one side being occupied by the descending 
entrance steps, and on each of the other four sides, are three rows ot 
horizontal cells, having three cells each, making 36 in all : if the re- 
mains are permanently deposited, the cell is closed with a marble tab- 
let, bearing the name of the deceased, &c. 





CHARLES T. HILDRETH. LOT 291, JASMINE PATH. 
" We frail and blind, to whom our own dark moon, 
AVith its few phases is a mystery ! 
Back to the dust, most arrogant ! Be still ! 
Deep silence is thy wisdom '. Boast no more ! 
But let thy life be one long sigh of prayer, 
An hymn of praise, till from thy broken clay, 
At its last gasp, the unquenched spirit rise, 
And unforgotlen, 'mid unnumbered worlds, 
Ascend to Him, from whom its essence came." 



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SAMUEL APPLETON. LOT 411, CEDAR HILL, 

" Is it in the flight of human years 
'j'. i push eternity from living thought, 
Ami smother bouIs immortal in the dust ? — 
\ soul immortal, spending all her fires, 
Wasting her strength in Busied idleness, 
Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed 
At aught ttiis scene can threaten or indulge,— 
Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, 
To waft a feather or to drown a fly." 



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ADAMS. LOT 455. ROSEMARY PATH. 



" Vnd is this nil— this mournful doom? 
Beams no glad lighl beyond tin- tomb ' 
Mark how \ on clouds in darkness ride ; 
They do not quench the orb they hide ; 
Still there it wheels — the tempest o'er 



| In :i brielil sky to burn once more ; 

So. far above tin- clouds of lime, 
[ Faith can behold a world sublime — 
There « hen the storms of life are past, 
The light beyond, shall break atlasl " 




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STANTON, BLAKE AND IIALLET, JUNCTION OF IVY AND 
ASTER PATHS. LOT 407. 

" The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 

And all that beamy, all that wealth e'er'gave, 
Await alike th' inevitable hour: — 

And paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
Can storied urn or animated bust 

Back to its mansion call the Heelingbreath .' 
Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, 

Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? " 




FREDERICK P. LEVERETT. LOT 54, VINE PATH. 
His hope we trust was in Christ. 

"The distinguished reputation of a scholar, the exalted integrity of a 
man, the noble qualities which grace a husband, father, son, brother, 
friend, as they were his, Avon the praise and love of every heart : so 
are they his just memorial. 




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WM. A. STEARNS. LOT 64(3. MOSS PATH. MON. TO SAItf'L H. .STEARNS. 

"Ay, freely hath the tear been given— ami freely hafk jone forth 
Tin: sigh of grief, that one like thee should pass away from earth ; 

But those who nn ■urn thee, mourn thee not like those to \\ h is given 

No southing hope, no blissful thoughts of parted friends in Heaven: 

Tlicj- feel that thou wast summ .1 to the Christian's high reward, — . 

The everlasting joys of those whose trust is in the Lord." 



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HANNAH ADAMS. LOT ISO, CENTRAL SQUARE. 

Historian of the Jews, &c. Deceased, Dec. 15, 1831, A{ 
the first burial in Mt. Auburn. 

" dear, ye lair daughters of this happy land! 

Whose radient eyes the vanquished world command, 

Virtue is beauty; lint when charms of mind 

With elegance of outward form are joined ; 

When youth makes such bright objects still more bright, 

Ami fortune sets them in the strongest light, 

'Tis all of heaven that we In-low may view 

And all but adoration is your duo." 



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REV. JOHN' MURRAY. LOT 587. MOSS PATH. 

"The Soul! — the 8oul! -with its eye of fire, 

Thus, thus shall it soar when its foes expire ; 

It shull spreail its wings o'er the ills that pained, 
The evils that shadowed, the sins that stained, 

It shall dwell where no rushing cloud hath sway 
And the pageants of earth shall have melted away. 




WARREN COLBURN, DIED 1833. OS 40 YEARS. 
LOT 429. LOCUST AVENUE. 

Cherished in classic lore ! Though short thy dole ! 

' : Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures. 

That life is long which answers life's great end. 

The lime that hears no fruit, deserves no name ; 

The man of wisdom is the man of years : 

In hoaiy youth .Melhusalems may die 

Then how misdated on some flattering tombs! " 







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CHARLES CHOATE. LOT 42, POPLAR AVENUE. 

'• Faith builds a bridge from this world to llie next, 
O'er Death's dark gulf, and all its horrors hides : 
Praise, the sweet exhalation of our joy, 
That joy exalts, and makes it sweeter still : 
Prayer ardent, opens Heaven, lets down a stream 
Of glory on the consecrated hour 
Of man ill audience with the Deity ? 
Who worships the great Uod, that instant joins 
The first ill Heaven." 




HENRY BLAKE MC CLELLAN. DECEASED 1833, 8C. 22. 
LOT 123, POPLAR AVENUE. 
!; We lately mused beside thy peaceful grave, 
In Auburn's sweet and consecrated shades; 
' Twas Autumn, and a mellow sunset cast 
lis golden smile through variegated woods, 
And silence waved her tranquillizing wing. 
There rose the beech-lree in its dying pomp, 
The maple and the sumac clad in gold, 
The sycamore in princely garments drest, 
And the pale silvery birch, kissed by the glowing west." 




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ISAAC WILLIAMS. LOT 142, WILLOW AVENUE. 

" The bell strikes one. We take no note of time 

Bui from ils loss : to give it then a tongue 

Is wise in man. — If heard aright, 

It is the knell of our departed hours. 

Where are they .' With the years beyond the flood; 

It is the signal that demands despatch : 

How much is to be done ! ray hopes and fears 

Look down — on what .' A fathomless abyss. 

A dread eternity I how surely mine! 

And can eternity belong to me; 

l'our pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? '? 




EDWIN BUCKINGHAM, DIED 1833, fP. 23 TEARS. 
LOT 134. WILLOW AVENUE. 

" Rest, Loved One, rest — beneath the billow's swell, 
Where tongue ne'er spoke, where sunlight never fell ; 
Rest — lill the God who gave thee to the deep, 
Rouse thee, triumphant, from the long, long sleep. 
And you, whose hearts are bleeding, who deplore 
That ye must see your Edwin's face no more, 
Weep — he was worthy of the purest grief; 
Weep — in such sorrow ye shall find relief; 
While o'er his doom, the bitter tear ye shed, 
Memory shall trace the virtues of the dead ; 
These cannot die ! for you, for him, they bloom, 
And scatter fragrance round his ocean-tomb." 




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REV. JOSEPH TUCKERMAN. LOT 222. OAK AVENUE. 

Copied from the monument. 

" For twenty-five years a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in the vil- 
lage of Chelsea, and for fourteen years a devoted missionary to the 
Buffering and neglected of the city of Boston. His best monument is the 
ministry at large ; his appropriate title, the Friend of the poor." 

3d compartment — "Born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 18, 1778; Died in 
Cuba, \V. I., April 20, 1840." I 

4th side — " This monument is erected by friends to whom his mem- 
ory is dear for the services he rendered, and the impulse he gave to the 
cause of Christian Philanthropy. 




THOMAS WETMORE. I.0T 581, ALDER PATH. 

" O Contemplation ! I do love 

To indulge thy grateful musings : Why along 

The dusty track of commerce should 1 toil, 

When with an easy competence, content, 

I can alone be happy, — and loose the wings of Fancy T 

And to he happy here, is man's chief end ; 

And to be happy, he must fain be good ! " 




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MON. TO SAVAGE, ON GARDNER GREENLEAF's LOT NO. 74, ALDER PATH. 



"The dead, the much-loved dead ! 

Who doth not yearn to know 
The secret of their dwelling place, 

And to what land they go ? 
What heart hut asks with ceaseless tone 
For some sure knowledge of its own .'" 



"Ye are not dead to us ; 

But as bright stars, unseen, 
We hold that ye axe ewer near, 

Though death intrudes between, 
Like some thin cloud, that veils from sight 
The countless spangles of the night." 




HON. JOSEPH STORY, L L. D. LOT 313, NARCISSUS PATH, 

" Death ! great proprietor of all ! 'lis thine 

To cast out empire, and to quench the stars ; 

The sun by thy permission, brilliant shines, 

But one day thou shall pluck him from his sphere, 

And in this mighty plunder, was thy mark on me, 

Insatiate archer ! once could not suffice, 

Thy shafts flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain." 




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JOHN W. WEBSTER. LOT 361, NARCISSUS PATH. 

" Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, 

And love with fear the only God ; to walk 

As in Ins presence ; ever to observe 

His providence : and on him side depend, 

Merciful o'er all his works, with good 

Still overcoming evil, and fay small 

Accomplishing great things by things deemed weak, 

Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise, 

By simply meek ; that sniffling for truth's sake 

Is fortitude to highest victory, 

And to the faithful, death the gate of life .'" 







HENRY OXNARD. LOT 3(34. NARCISSUS PATH. 

" Celestial Happiness.' whene'er she stoops 
To visit Earth, one shrine the goddess finds, 
And one alone, to make her sweet amends 

For absent Heaven — the bosom of a friend; 
Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, 
Each other's pillow to repose divine." 




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CLEMENT DUROIN. LOT 433. NARCISSUS PATH. 

"Clement Durgin, Associate principal of Chauncy Hall School, Boston, 
born Sept. 29, 1802, died Sept. 30, 1833 : astudent and lover of nature, in 
her wonders, he saw and acknowledged and through them adored her 
benificent Author : his life was a beautiful illustration of his philosophy 
— his death, of the triumph of his faith : his pupils have reared this 
monument as an imperfect memorial of their great affection and respect." 




NATHANIEL FAXON. LOT 384 NARCISSUS PATH. 
"There I placed 
A frail memorial, — that when again 
I should revisil it, the thought might come 
Of the dull tide of life, and that pure spring 
Which he who drinks of, never shall thirst more." 




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TOMB OF W.M. P. WINCHESTER. J.UJ 380, NARCISSUS PATH. 
Arthur Gilmaii, Architect. 




MARTIN BRIMMER. LOT 394. INDIAN RIDGE PATH. 



"The departed ! the departed! 

They visit us iu dreams, 
And ihey glide above our memories, 

Like shadows over streams ; 
Bin where the cheerful lights of home 

In constant lustre burn, 
The departed! the departed! 

Can never more return! 



The crond. the brave, the beautiful! 

How dreamless is their sleep, 
W here rolls the dirge-like music 

Of the ever-tossing deep: — 
Or where the hurrying night 'winds 

Pale winti r robes have spread, 
■ ue narrow palaces, 

la the cities of the dead!" 




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GEORGE BOND. LOT 156, INDIAN RIDGE PATH. 

"Lost Friend, I shrink to say, so frail are we — 
So like the brief ephemeron that wheels 
Its momentary round, we scarce can weep 
Our own bereavements, ere we haste to share 
The clay with those we mourn." 




BENJAMIN SEAWER. LOT 158, INDIAN RIDGE TATH. 

"I looked on manhood's towering form 

Like some tall Oak when tempests blow, 
Thalseorns the fury of the storm 

And strongly strikes its roots below : 
Again I looked^with idiot cower 
His vacant eye's unmeaning ray, 
Told how the uaind of godlike power 
Passeth away." 




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SAMUEL GREENI.EAF. LOT 409 ; INDIAN RIDGE PATH. 

" Angel of death ! did no presaging sign 

Announce thy coming, and ihy way prepare? 

No warning voice, no harbinger was ilnne — 

Danger and fear seemed past — liui thou wer't there ! 

Prophetic sounds along the earthquake'! path — 

Foreiel the hour of Nature's awful throes ; 

And the volcano, ere it hursts in wrath, 

Sends forth some herald from its dread repose : 

But thou dark Spirit! swift and unforeseen, 

Cam'st like the lightning's Hash, when heaven was all serene." 



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ENOCH PATTERSON. LOT 438, INDIAN RIDGE PATH. 

"For this mortal must put on immortality.'' 

TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID PATTERSON. 

" He sleeps beneath the blue lone sea, 
Hi- lies where pearls the deep, 
He was the loved of all; yet none 
O'er his low bed may weep."' 



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ALEXANDER WADSWORTH. LOT 431. INDIAN RIDGE PATH. 

An infant son, born March 25, died March 9, 1837. 

"Before the heart might learn I "Shall love with weak embrace 

la waywardness to stray, Thy heavenward flight detain T 

Before the foot could turn I No ! Angels seek thy place 

The dark and downward way ; " | Among yon cherub-train." 




NATHANIEL FRANCIS. LOT 333, INDIAN RIDGE PATH. 

" For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 

Or busy housewife ply her evening care : 
No children run to lisp their sire's return, 

Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, 

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; 
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 

And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 
Oh, who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 

This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, 
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 

Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ! " 




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JOHN TAPPAN ? S MONUMENT. LOT 307. 



At the junction of Linden and Narcissus Paths is a broken shaft, as an 
emblem of an unfinished course of life; with a iose bush limb, from 
which five of its flowers and buds have been broken oif, leaving five 
roses on the principal stem; betokening the number of the social "circle 
alive and deceased. 




LEVI THAXTER. LOT 406, LINDEN PATH, 
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"No bitter tears for thee be shed, 

Blossom of being : dead and gone ! 
With flowers alone we strew thy bed, 
O blest departed one ! 

II "i life, a rosy ray 
Blushed into dawn, and passed away.'' 



"Thou wer't so like a form of light, 

That Heaven benignly called thee hence, 
Ere j el the world could breathe one blight 

O'er thy sweet innoeence : 
And thou.' that bright home to bless, 
Hast passed with all thy loveliness.'' 











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DR. JACOB BIGELOW. LOT 116, BEECH AVENUE. 

Joyous we move when health incites the veins, 
And genius floats in bright etherial strains! 
But when disease, the frame with palsy stints, 
And the mind broods on lethal, hideous things, 
Excelsior head, the life-springs sagely scan. 
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"We see the circling hunt of noisy men 
Burst law's enclosure, leap the mounds of right, 
Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey, 
As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, 
Till Death, that mighty hunter earth's them all. 
Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? 
AVhat though we -vade in wealth, or soar in fame ? 
Earth's brightest station ends in "here he lies;," 
And "dust to dust," concludes her noblest song." 







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JESSE PUTNAM. LOT 473, BEACH AVENUE. 

<: 'T is night, and the landscape is lovely no more : 

I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; 
For morn is approaching;, your charms to restore, 

Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew ; 
And darkness and doubt are now flying away, 

No longer 1 roam in conjecture forlorn; 
!>o breaks on the traveler, faint, weary, astray, 

The bright and balmy effulgence of morn. 
See Truth, Love and Mercy, in triumph descending, 

And nature all glowing in Eden's lirst bloom! 
On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending-, 

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." 







thomas h. Perkins' watch dog, lot 108 central avenue. 

As history makes record of so many acts of fidelity, watchfulness and 
sagacity of the Dop;, it is here considered appropriate to place him, as 
an apparent guard to the remains oi the family who were his friends; 
it was sculptured in Italy from the purest Italian marble. 




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REV FREDERICK T. GRAY: LOT 1843, HIBISCUS PATH. 

Is a lowly, neat monument of a Bible opened, encircled with a branch 
of Olive, resting on an inclined slab, supported by a marble base. 



"How beautiful on all the hills 

The crimson light is shed ! 
'Tis like the peace the Christian gives 

To mourners round his bed. 

How mildly on the wandering cloud 

The sunset beam is cast ! 
'Tis like the memory left behind 

When loved ones breathe their last.' 



"And now, above the dews of night, 
The yellow star appears; 

So faith springs in the heart of those 
Whose eyes are bathed in tears. 

But soon the morning's happier light 

Its glory shall restore, 
Ami eyelids that are sealed in death. 

Shall wake to close no more." 




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COGSWELL, LOT 1142. JUNCTION OF CENTRAL AND CYPRUS AV. 

" A part how small of the terraqueous globe 

Is tenanted by man ! — the rest a waste, 

Rucks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! 

Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death. 

Such is Earth's melancholy map! but, far 

More sad ! this earth is a true map of man : 

So bounded are its haughty lord's delights 

To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss, 

Loud sorrows howl, envenomed passions bite, 

And threatening Fate wide opens to devour." 




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FAITH AND THE CROSS. MARIA LOUISA FORD. 

" Farewell my best beloved! whose heavenly mind, 
Genius with virtue, strength with soilness joined ; 
Devotion, undebased by pride or art, 
With much simplicity, and joy of heart : 
Tho' sprightly, gentle, though polite, sincere ; 
And only of thyself a judge severe ; 
Thou was't beyond what verse or speech can tell 
My guide, my friend, my best beloved, farewell!" 







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ELDREDGE MONUMENT. EGLANTINE PATH, 

This monument is on Eglantine Path, Lot 1539, owned by C. F. Bagley 




SAMUEL STORY, JR., LUPINE PATH, NEAR SPRUCE AV. 

" O Thou ! whose word from solid darkness struck 
That spark, the Sun ; strike wisdom from my soul ; 
My soul, which flies to thee, her trust, her treasure, 
As misers to their gold, while others rest : 
Through this opaque of Nature and of Soul, 
This double night, transmit one pitying ray, 
To lighten and to cheer. O lead my mind 
(A mind that fain would wander from its woe,) 
Lead it through various scenes of life and death, 
And from each scene the noblest truths inspire.-' 




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TOUCH NOT THE FLOWERS. 

IiY MRS. C. W. HINT. 
" O, do not pluck the flowers ; they are sacred to the dead. 



Touch not the flowers, the cherished flowers, 

The festal gift of summer hoars; 

They're holy things; They bloom to shed 

A gkulening radiance round the dead ; 

Their glowing cups and sweet perfume 

Dissolve the shadows of the tomb; 

Twas no vain love, — the love that gave 

Their vernal freshness to the grave. 

The snowy marble's sculptured height, 

May seem to thee a prouder sight, 

And ye may read in language iair, 

High names and deeds emblazoned there ; 

But can its gorgeous splendor vie 

"Willi the imperial lily's dye .' 

lis shrine a purer record be 

Of all that binds the lost to thee? 

Touch not the flowers ; we know not death 
Amid their loveliness, each wreath 
Thai finals upon ihe summer gale 
Bears saddening tones from sorrow's waif ; 
O! can ye mark their bloom, nor feel 
The truth their bursting buds reveal. 
That earth her sacred trusl must yield, 
"Whether from bower or tented field.' 
There, where yon simple daisy rears 
lis smiling head, with many tears 
They laid a fair young bride to rest. 
Touch not the flower her love hath blest : 



Within its clustering petals lie 
Memories and hopes that cannot die ; 

Her spirit o'er its leaves hath shed 

A life that animates the dead. 

How vain the costly pile to rear 

O'er those u ho seorned such trappings here; 

Swift time, with strong, o'ermastering power, 

Prostrates high tomb, ami lowly (lower; 

But summer's breezes shall rciiew 

The rose's bloom, ihe violet's hue; 

Not so the carved and fretted stone — 

It springs no more ; its glory's gone. 

Tom h not the flowers; O, can there be, 

Childhood, a holler type of thee ? 

A fitter image of thy (loom 

Than the wild floweret's transient bloom? 

Lei the pure sculpture gleam for him 

Before whose breath the World grew dim, 

Bui spare to purity the shrine 

Upspringing by a band divine. 

Touch not the flowers ; the fervent prayer, 

Poured o'er the erring slumberer there, 

On incense pinions shall arise, 

"Witli blissful chastenings to the skies. 

God -peaks iu every glorious hue, 

Bright words of promise unto you; 

O'er all his healing love he sheds : 

Touch liol the (lowers. Tluy are the dead's. 



FAREWELL OF THE SOUL TO THE BODY, 

BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. 



Companion dear! the hour draws nigh, 

The sentence speeds — to die, to die. 

So long in mystic union held, 

So close with strong embrace compell'd, 

How canst thou bear the dread decree. 

That strikes thy clasping nerves from me? 

— To Him who oil this mortal shore, 

The same encircling vestment wore, 

To Him I look, to Him I bend, 

To 1 1 i in thy shuddering frame commend. 

— If I have ever caus'd thee pain, 
The throbbing breast, the burning brain, 
"With cares and vigils turn'd thee pale. 
And scorn'd thee when thy strength did fail- 
Forgive !— Forgive ! — thy task doth cease, 
Friend! Lover! — let us part in peace — 
If thou didst sometimes check my force, 
Or, trifling, slay mine upward course, 
Or lure from Heaven my wavering trust, 
Or bow my drooping wing to dust — 
I blame ihee not, the strife is done, 
I knew thou wen the weaker one, 
The vase- of earth, the trembling clod, 
Constrained to hold the breath of God. 
— Well hast thou iu my service wrought, 
Thy brow hath mirror'd forth my thought, 
To u ear my smile thy lip hath glow'd, 
Thy tear, to speak my sorrows, flowed, 
Thine ear hath borne me rich supplies 
Oi sweetly vai ied melodies, 
Thy hands my prompted deeds have done, 



Thy feet upon mine errands run — 

"S es, thou hast mark'd my bidding well, 

Faithful and true ! farewell, farewell. 

— Go to thy rest. A quiet bed 

Meek mother Earth with flowers shall spread, 

Where I no more thy sleep may break 

With fever'd dream, nor rudely wake 

Thy weaned eye. 

Oh, cpiit thy hold, 
For ihoii art feint, and chill, and cold, 
And long thy gasp and groan of pain 
Have bound lue pitying iu thy chain, 
Though angels urge me hence to soar, 
' Where I shall share thine ills no more, 
— Yet we shall meet. To soothe thy pain 
Remember— we shall meel again. 
Quell \\ ith ilns hope the victor's sting, 
And keep n as a signet-ring, 
When the dire worm shall pierce thy breast, 
And nought but ashes mark lhy rest, 
When Stars shall fall and skies grow dark, 
And proud suns quench their glow-worm spark, 

Keep th0U that hope, to lifjlll ill)' gloOIll, 

Till ihe last trumpet rends the tomb. 

- Then shall thou glorious rise, and fair, 

Nor spot, nor slain, nor wrinkle bear, 

And, I w ith hovei ins wing elate, 

The bursting of thy bonds shall wait, 

Ami breathe the web le of the sky — 

10 part, no more to die, 

Ci eii ol Immortality." 



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Sons of Pilgrims, from afar, 
Scourged by Priests' unholy war, 
Denied the light of Bethlehem's star, 

Rejoice, your sons are free! 
Free to praise Jehovah's throne, 
Proclaim a worship of their own, 
Reap the fruits their sires have sown, 

Heavenward Liberty ! 

Here just rulers from your kin, 
Freemens' voices usher in, 
Laws from them have ever been 

Those you most approved .' 



Here our youth we'll train aright, 
Ungodly power to curb its might, 
The joys of life — an equal right, 

By foreign power unmoved ! 

Speed the boon thus nobly planned, 

Their growth will crown and bless the land, 

Worth and Science— hand in hand, 

"Will make it rich in store! 
Protect the Mothers' sovereign right, 
The sons will bask in earth's delight, 
And virtue's nerve impait them, might — 

To joy for evermore. 



WOMAN. 

BY NATHANIEL DEARBORN. 



Dame Nature had finished her toil — 
'Twas all good in the world to her eyes — 

But she dwelt with peculiar delight 
On her last and best work — 'twas a prize - 

" My labor was arduous," she said, 
" With materials too rough I began, 

And my taste was not good as you see, 
For with them I finished a man ; 

But woman, I moulded you last ! 

With a delicate hand I progressed — 
Truth and innocence placed in your heart. 

And with beauty and love did the rest ! 

To man I must e'en trust this flower, 
With this charge, if they ask to be blest — 

Protect, love and honor the fair, 
Rememb'ring its high heaven's behest ! " 



QUOTATIONS OF HUMOR, WIT, AND WISDOM. 

A volume of 300 pages, with this title, has just been issued by Nathaniel Dearborn ; em- 
belished with 10 engravings on wood : about one quarter of the work is original, and the 
Quotations were carefully examined and prepared, for the correct taste of those who en- 
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Also, REMINISCENCES OF BOSTON and GUIDE through the citt and 
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an ancient and modern map of the Peninsula, and illustrated by plates and engravings 
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1774, Dec. 19. Cheering information was received from Portsmouth, N. H., 
that a body of their people had attacked the Fort at New Castle, on the 15lh 
of December, scaled its walls, disarmed the commander and his men, and 
taken off 07 barrels of powder, CO stands of muskets, and 10 pieces of cannon, 
and conveyed the whole to a safe retreat in the country. This acquisition 
made a gratifying offset to the loss at Cambridge. The Governor of N. H. 
Colony proclaimed the act to be " open hostility and direct oppugnation to His 
Majesty's Government.' - — Dearborn's Boston Xotions. 

A BALLAD. 

BY NATHAMEL D^ARBORX. 



In a stormy, wint'ry, midnight hour, 

Seventy-six years ago, 
Seventeen hundred and seventy-four, 

Some Portsmouth boys, we know, 
Scaled the great tower — Newcastle's fort 

Chained there its leader foe, 
Took sixteen cannon from their port, — 

Guns sixty, thro' the snow ! 
Gunpowder, loo, was for them there, 

Full barrels, ninetv-sevein 



All trotted off, securely, where 

They could not them replevin : 
No blood was shed — no wife's dismay, 

()i children wrapt in woe, 
They simply seized tin' power to slay, 

Seventy-six years ago. 
The Granite chaps with truth relate, 

The daring of its hardy scions, 
T' achieve and elevate their Slate. 

Or luard unrulv British Lions. 



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And press the muses in our claim. 
The point to solve's at public option, 
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Fair ladies Cards, engraved beautiful, 

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Yhcir lordships too, attend we, dutiful— 

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